Kim Sung-ho

Kim Sung Ho (Ph.D., U. Chicago, 1997) teaches political philosophy and constitutional theory at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). He was previously a professor of political science at the University of California and Williams College. His studies in German political thought have been published as Max Weber’s Politics of Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2004/2007). Constitutionalism and democratic theories are his recent research concerns. At HYI, he focused on a comparative-constitutional investigation of how liberal-democratic constitutionalism was transplanted—or “imposed” in the parlance of late— under the US military tutelage in occupied Japan (1946) and postcolonial Korea (1948).